Blowback

Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege.

A woman with courage to refuse to bow to the lie. My two kids have birth mothers who gave them up for adoption to us. Real woman don’t kill babies and this young lady will see Christ face to face some day and He will say the words…Well done good and faithful servant…..

I applaud this woman.
But the headline seems strange.
If the woman is a surrogate mother, then the child is not really hers to begin with, correct?
Being a surrogate you take the fertilized egg of some other man & woman into your body as a carrier.

Apparently the surrogate “mom” demanded $15K to abort after the other “parents” offered $10K. When they said no she decided to keep the baby. This whole story is disgusting on so many levels. I’m just grateful that this precious baby wasn’t killed and that she now has someone to love her.

This story is sick and twisted. It’s shocking just how few people cared about the life of this child.

Apparently the surrogate “mom” demanded $15K to abort after the other “parents” offered $10K. When they said no she decided to keep the baby. This whole story is disgusting on so many levels. I’m just grateful that this precious baby wasn’t killed and that she now has someone to love her.

This story is sick and twisted. It’s shocking just how few people cared about the life of this child.

patriette on March 5, 2013 at 1:42 PM

~~~~~~

Thank you for that…I was about to post the same thing…a bunch of slimy, disgusting people, including the human incubator…God bless the woman who actually adopted this little girl.

She’s no hero, and she is not taking care of the baby. She gave birth, and then gave the baby girl to unrelated foster parents. They’re the real heroes of this story (the only ones).

The surrogate did turn down the $10,000 offer to abort the baby, but she countered with her own offer to do it for $15,000. Apparently it wasn’t the abortion she objected to as much as the relatively low price she was offered to have it done. When she signed the surrogacy contract, she agreed to abort the fetus if it had serious deformities/disabilities.

A woman with courage to refuse to bow to the lie. My two kids have birth mothers who gave them up for adoption to us. Real woman don’t kill babies and this young lady will see Christ face to face some day and He will say the words…Well done good and faithful servant…..

crosshugger on March 5, 2013 at 1:18 PM

For those who serve the least of men will be honored as the greatest. Something like that… Our children, particularly in the womb are the weakest souls God grants us the privilege to serve.

She is a single mother with 4 of her own kids. The surrogate parents had told her that the baby would be dumped in a state institution. By fleeing to Michigan she would have some control as to where the child would be placed. No matter what she said, she ultimately did the right thing. But of course, it is never enough for the Saints of HotAir.

She admitted that the possible acceptance of money was a weak moment. In the end, she did a heroic thing. She stood up for the rights and life of this little baby and made sure she has a home where she will be loved and respected and treated with dignity.

That said, I think surrogacy is a risky and bad business in many/most cases.

–The humanity and the human rights of an unborn child in the U.S. depend entirely upon whether or not the woman carrying him chooses to see them as human (as indicated by our laws that allow a woman to abort a child yet will charge someone who kills that mother and her unborn child with a double murder).

And…

–The woman carrying this child considered them to be a human.

Then…

–Shouldn’t the biological parents of this child be charged with attempting to order a contract killing?

The questions get pretty stupid when you have laws that don’t make sense.

The questions get pretty stupid when you have laws that don’t make sense.

29Victor on March 6, 2013 at 9:23 AM

10-4. What really gets hairy here is that the woman has the liberal ‘right’ of “my body, my choice” but the baby is very much the property of the parents. So what it comes down to is who’s rights trump whose?

Frankly I would have no problem with the surrogate being on the line for the baby’s many extra medical expenses. She is no hero, merely a mercenary incubator who went through with her bluff.

Thank you for that…I was about to post the same thing…a bunch of slimy, disgusting people, including the human incubator…God bless the woman who actually adopted this little girl.

ellifint on March 5, 2013 at 2:07 PM

St. Peter denied Him three times. By asking for the $15K, she behaved sinfully. But I notice she acknowledged and confessed her sin — and performed the necessary penance. Not even CNN could dirty her.

The parents, on the other hand, abandoned their child. When they see our Savior, what will they tell him?

or am I being too harsh?

mdenis39 on March 5, 2013 at 5:09 PM

I don’t think so. Exactly the right level of harshness.

It is ok, the sperm donor dad can still be shaken down for millions!

astonerii on March 5, 2013 at 3:39 PM

Not by the surrogate, but by the child they abandoned. That child never signed a contract and never asked for emancipation. Should she decided to assert her rights later in life, things will get correctly dicey. The genetic parents played god with in vitro fertilization and surrogacy, and I hope they are made to understand what they did wrong…

It’s amazing that the liberals and some libertarians on this site think it was nasty for the birth mother not to have had an abortion. Strange how that right to choose goes away under some circumstances…

It’s quite a bit more than that. They even talk about the possibility that she’ll never be able to walk in the video.

That said, I know not everyone watches the video, but it gets a little annoying when so many act like no one else does.

They cover the $15k in the video. She openly admits to it.

But if it had all been about the money, no reason to go ahead and have the baby. $10k is still a lot of money. I don’t see why everyone’s dumping on her. No one’s calling her a hero.

Seriously, it gets old when you guys have to dump on everyone for not being perfect.

Esthier on March 5, 2013 at 6:36 PM

Yep. The child has multiple severe defects.

As for the mother. She was a divorced, single mother with four kids who had lost her job. So you could see how Satan might tempt someone like that with money and how someone who was that desperate might consider it. Luckily, the woman ultimately did the right thing.

As for vile, just peruse some of the comments underneath the story at CNN. Quite a few wouldn’t have been out of place in Nazi Germany.